CPKC Maple Creek Subdivsion

Take a journey across a piece of the transcontinental railroad first spiked down by the Canadian Pacific in Alberta and Saskatchewan. A line where monstrous trains traverse rolling prairies and badlands. This is CPKC's Maple Creek Subdivision.

This 148 mile highway paved with steel connects the city of Medicine Hat in the corner of Southern Alberta with the quaint city of Swift Current in Western Saskatchewan. The railroad was built to unify Canada on its mission westward to the Rocky mountains in British Columbia, making it available to anyone who wanted to settle there. Medicine Hat serves as the transition point where trains power up for the climb into the mountains and power down before continuing across the prairies. Two of the biggest commodities are potash, shipped in unit trains from the mines from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and grain loaded at numerous facilities and shipped to various destinations across Canada and all over the world. Along with mixed manifests that roll between rail hubs scattered across the CPKC system, monthly coal trains from the mines from Sparwood journey eastward towards Thunder Bay, locals scurry the Hatton spur and serve various customers all along the line, and Intermodal moving the weight of Canada's goods.

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